Return to Babylon : travelers, archaeologists, and monuments in Mesopotamia

1. Verfasser: Fagan, Brian M.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, 2007.
Ausgabe: Rev. ed., Updated ed.
Umfang/Format: xix, 386 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Online Zugang: Table of contents only
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Author's note
  • Chronology: 10,000 B.C. to A.D. 1515
  • I. Lost kingdoms and Biblical lands
  • A legacy of civilizations
  • Early travelers
  • Carsten Niebuhr at Persepolis
  • II. Consuls and cuneiform
  • Claudius James Rich
  • Diplomacy and archaeology in Baghdad
  • The Euphrates expedition
  • Cuneiform deciphered
  • III. Palaces of kings
  • Excavations at Khorsabad
  • Layard of Nineveh
  • Nimrud and Khorsabad
  • IV. Tablets and tells
  • Excavations in Babylonia
  • The royal lion hunt
  • The deluge tablets
  • Gates and palaces
  • A scramble for tablets
  • Sumer discovered
  • Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon
  • Leonard Woolley at Carchemish
  • V. Science and nationalism
  • Gertrude Bell and the new Iraq
  • Woolley at Ur
  • Nationalism and archaeology
  • Catastrophe
  • Notes
  • Guide to further reading
  • Index.

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